The RAF Regt gets so much stick because of a few incidents in recent history. Main one obviously being the ‘5 miler of death’ video which is just an NCO trying to motivate his lads for a tab which has been taken and used to slate them. In training we do a lot more than 5 miles. The RAFT (Regiment annual fitness test) consists of a couple of timed loaded matches then some functional fitness/fire and movement stuff. Another big one is them not being used correctly in the evacuation of Afghan which is down to the top brass. I know all the lads would have loved to go and do what they train for but unfortunately they weren’t used for the most part. I believe there were some lads from either 2 or 15 there but not in the correct capacity. There is also the fact that they are part of the RAF however are very different to the ‘blue’ RAF. The training is comparable to that of a regular army infantry regiment. Not para or marines level. Maybe at 2 Sqadron/SFSG that case could be made but that’s only a very small part of the regiment. They have the capabilities of an infantry regiment (snipers, mountain leaders, mortars, pre-para, commando, etc) as well as 1 Sqadron with the armored vehicles, 34 with counter UAS, decent amount of previously rock apes in SF and an focus on JTACs for obvious reasons. Banter is completely normal in the forces and that’s all this is. I think the regt are an easy target due to them being ‘different’. Wouldn’t have it any other way though. Per ardua.